Obviously, it's a reference to use of robots in sexual encounters (but not in the Japanese way). From the Urban Dictionary definition of point man:
"When going out with a group of male friends with the intent of picking up women together, the point man is the friend that will always jump on the hand grenade, while the wing man's responsibility is to distract the cock blocker friend."
So the robot is to be the point man, while someone else (presumably you) pick up the girl. You might need a second robot as the wing man, of course.
Prices will of course shoot back up once the competitor leaves or goes under.
So, AT&T just has to wait for Google to go under. They have nothing to worry about.
Reminds me of an old joke:
The greatest military genius of all time was Emperor Alexander I. He allowed his forces to retreat when Napoleon invaded, letting the enemy deep into his land. Then, he waited for the snows of winter.
The second greatest military genius was Stalin. He allowed his forces to retreat when Hitler invaded, letting the enemy deep into his land. Then, he waited for the snows of winter.
The third greatest military genius was Nassar. He allowed his forces to retreat when the Israelis invaded, letting them deep into his land. Then, he waited for the snows of winter. And waited. And waited. And waited.
Guess which one of these military geniuses is most like AT&T...
"One consequence you can expect if you donate machines is that GNU will run on them at an early date." So, exactly how many PDP-11's have *you* donated?...
Every single one that I owned... I was equally generous with all of my VAXen and other minicomputers.
XBone.. is that really what people are calling it, in a non derogatory way?
Some of us had assumed all references to XBone were derogatory, one way or another.
But it's hard to tell, as even fans of the XBone seem to use the same term. It's as if they somehow enjoy being boned.
Public domain means anyone can have it for free as long as they don't try and sell it.
No. CC license != public domain. Public domain is not a license. There is nothing at all stopping you from collecting the works of HP Lovecraft, publishing them, and selling them. The published product itself is protected, but the stories are not.
A couple of items. First, you should be aware of the CC0 license, which is a way for a creator to explicitly place a work into the public domain, or to disclaim as many rights as legally possible. It asserts that the creator had all legal and moral rights to the work, and that the creator explicitly gives these rights to the public, to the greatest extent possible under law. Second, you're absolutely right about being able to sell stuff which is in the public domain (although finding a buyer can sometimes be tricky).
Lisi's E_8 conjecture is somewhat more complicated than this one. For a start, the geometry of the E_8 group is richer than that of a mere amplituhedron. Others may note that Lisi's conjecture also includes gravitation in its unification, while TFA appears to be only about particle families.
(e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Even worse, then you Save, you end up in Recently Used.
Try it with, for example, GIMP. Then GIMP tells you: "Please select a folder below"
It's even worse, if you're tweaking a web site. The absurd "Recently Used" category is just full of files named index.html, and they're a bunch of different files in different directories (but Gnome conceals the directories or other context, of course). It's one of the reasons I disabled that category on our PCs.
This affects non Gnome 3 users sometimes (e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Ooohh, is that what it is. Is there a workaround?
Here's one that keeps the "Recently Used" category empty. Unfortunately, it does not prevent GTK3 applications from defaulting to that absurd category in a File/Open operation. As a logged-in user, run:
The second rm will probably cause an error message, unless some application is busily updating the "Recently Used" category while you run these commands.
From the concept art this looks like they are making a simple rocket stove and putting a pot skirt on top. There are quite a few people working to develop low cost, efficient, and nonpolluting cook stoves for poorer countries, but most of them use natural materials (stone, brick).
I'm just wondering how much one of these things would cost? Looking at the sleek concept art, I'm guessing more that a family living in a mud hut and cooking with twigs and cow dung can afford.
Not to mention that, if you're burning stuff, then poor ventilation in the vicinity of the stove will defeat much of the intent (health, clean-burning, etc.). This remains so, however well the stove may function in a better location.
The average student has no idea how to find a square root by any means other than pushing a button on a calculator, but even then could not give any situation where a need for a square root would be useful.
You touch on a topic that has come up in our own home more than once. I learned how to calculate a square root to arbitrary precision at school some decades ago. It was part of the curriculum for 5th or 6th grade then. Our kids do not learn it at school, even though one is presently doing her matriculation (final exams). It's apparently not in the curriculum any more, and I doubt whether many of the teachers could handle it. I taught our kids how to extract a square root myself. They know how to do it in decimal, and the eldest can do it in other number bases as well.
The NSA has had my fingerprints and retina pattern for over a decade now.
Mine, too, with a lot of visits to the US. I wonder if they're doing any sort of analysis of changes over time in fingerprints and patterns in the retina and cornea. More interestingly, would this weaken further the FBI's insistence that fingerprints are unique identifiers which are invariant over long periods.
if something is not profitable, then the net benefit to society is negative.
Counterexample: Wikipedia. It's a non-profit, based entirely on user contributed material and user curating of said material. Even in opinion at , Wikipedia was considered to be generating a consumer surplus. But the very notion of consumer surplus is missing from your analysis.
As another example, having accessible works in the public domain is a net benefit to society, even if there is no profit to be made from them. No doubt, having any works in the public domain is an economic catastrophe in such a narrow view as the one you presented.
It wasn't that good. Closer to the festering diseased shite category, except that most festering diseased shite would take the comparison as an insult.
2. It's a scheme to nickle and dime the tax payer with the never ending promise of "we're so close, we just need some more funding" all while on the 10th round of funding already.
It does sound like a nickel and dime job, except for the lack of a nickel or dime: they're barely willing to spend a cent on it.
Ever get involved with work for Uncle Sam? The paperwork is appalling, starting with all the regulatory compliance issues (as indicated in mveloso's post below). The entire investment would be absorbed by bullshit overhead (project management, budget oversight, regulatory oversight, etc.) before a single STEM worker could get hired to actually do any of the work.
With $16M spread across 17 projects, it's no wonder that STEM jobs are underpaid. Then again, with all the billions being wasted on spying (on US citizens as well as foreigners), it no wonder there is so little left for projects which might actually benefit mankind.
It is embarrassing that over two millennia after the birth of Western civilisation,we have degenerated to a point where we still believe that simple indicators can determine whether someone will steal, lie, or be just wonderful.
Yep, the Middle Ages were pretty grim. Nowadays, roughly three millenia after the birth of Western civilization, we're slightly less retarded. But only slightly.
The colophon of the book states it clearly enough:
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license,
visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard
Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. If you distribute this work or a derivative, include the history of the
document."
"The source code is available at: https://github.com/ASCTech/mooculus/tree/master/public/textbook"
I guess the rush to post overwhelmed any curiosity in the material itself. Yes, the repetition "or send a or send a" exists in the textbook.
Oh but it's so much easier to just adapt to global warming! Think how much it would cost to pay slightly more for cleaner sources of electricity and pay a bit more up front for an electric car that then only costs pocket change to fuel! You might as well condemn all those people to death right now!
But... But... won't the "free market" reward them for breathing water?
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What does this even mean?
Obviously, it's a reference to use of robots in sexual encounters (but not in the Japanese way). From the Urban Dictionary definition of point man:
"When going out with a group of male friends with the intent of picking up women together, the point man is the friend that will always jump on the hand grenade, while the wing man's responsibility is to distract the cock blocker friend."
So the robot is to be the point man, while someone else (presumably you) pick up the girl. You might need a second robot as the wing man, of course.
Metro interfece is nice, but useless without software.
Microsoft interfeces? Sounds like shitty interfaces to me!
I'll just leave this here.
Prices will of course shoot back up once the competitor leaves or goes under.
So, AT&T just has to wait for Google to go under. They have nothing to worry about.
Reminds me of an old joke:
The greatest military genius of all time was Emperor Alexander I. He allowed his forces to retreat when Napoleon invaded, letting the enemy deep into his land. Then, he waited for the snows of winter.
The second greatest military genius was Stalin. He allowed his forces to retreat when Hitler invaded, letting the enemy deep into his land. Then, he waited for the snows of winter.
The third greatest military genius was Nassar. He allowed his forces to retreat when the Israelis invaded, letting them deep into his land. Then, he waited for the snows of winter. And waited. And waited. And waited.
Guess which one of these military geniuses is most like AT&T...
"One consequence you can expect if you donate machines is that GNU will run on them at an early date." So, exactly how many PDP-11's have *you* donated?...
Every single one that I owned... I was equally generous with all of my VAXen and other minicomputers.
XBone.. is that really what people are calling it, in a non derogatory way?
Some of us had assumed all references to XBone were derogatory, one way or another.
But it's hard to tell, as even fans of the XBone seem to use the same term. It's as if they somehow enjoy being boned.
Public domain means anyone can have it for free as long as they don't try and sell it.
No. CC license != public domain. Public domain is not a license. There is nothing at all stopping you from collecting the works of HP Lovecraft, publishing them, and selling them. The published product itself is protected, but the stories are not.
A couple of items. First, you should be aware of the CC0 license, which is a way for a creator to explicitly place a work into the public domain, or to disclaim as many rights as legally possible. It asserts that the creator had all legal and moral rights to the work, and that the creator explicitly gives these rights to the public, to the greatest extent possible under law. Second, you're absolutely right about being able to sell stuff which is in the public domain (although finding a buyer can sometimes be tricky).
Lisi's E_8 conjecture is somewhat more complicated than this one. For a start, the geometry of the E_8 group is richer than that of a mere amplituhedron. Others may note that Lisi's conjecture also includes gravitation in its unification, while TFA appears to be only about particle families.
(e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Even worse, then you Save, you end up in Recently Used. Try it with, for example, GIMP. Then GIMP tells you: "Please select a folder below"
It's even worse, if you're tweaking a web site. The absurd "Recently Used" category is just full of files named index.html, and they're a bunch of different files in different directories (but Gnome conceals the directories or other context, of course). It's one of the reasons I disabled that category on our PCs.
This affects non Gnome 3 users sometimes (e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Ooohh, is that what it is. Is there a workaround?
Here's one that keeps the "Recently Used" category empty. Unfortunately, it does not prevent GTK3 applications from defaulting to that absurd category in a File/Open operation. As a logged-in user, run:
rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-3.0
echo -e "[Settings]\ngtk-recent-files-max-age=0\ngtk-recent-files-limit=0" > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
The second rm will probably cause an error message, unless some application is busily updating the "Recently Used" category while you run these commands.
From the concept art this looks like they are making a simple rocket stove and putting a pot skirt on top. There are quite a few people working to develop low cost, efficient, and nonpolluting cook stoves for poorer countries, but most of them use natural materials (stone, brick).
I'm just wondering how much one of these things would cost? Looking at the sleek concept art, I'm guessing more that a family living in a mud hut and cooking with twigs and cow dung can afford.
Not to mention that, if you're burning stuff, then poor ventilation in the vicinity of the stove will defeat much of the intent (health, clean-burning, etc.). This remains so, however well the stove may function in a better location.
The average student has no idea how to find a square root by any means other than pushing a button on a calculator, but even then could not give any situation where a need for a square root would be useful.
You touch on a topic that has come up in our own home more than once. I learned how to calculate a square root to arbitrary precision at school some decades ago. It was part of the curriculum for 5th or 6th grade then. Our kids do not learn it at school, even though one is presently doing her matriculation (final exams). It's apparently not in the curriculum any more, and I doubt whether many of the teachers could handle it. I taught our kids how to extract a square root myself. They know how to do it in decimal, and the eldest can do it in other number bases as well.
The NSA has had my fingerprints and retina pattern for over a decade now.
Mine, too, with a lot of visits to the US. I wonder if they're doing any sort of analysis of changes over time in fingerprints and patterns in the retina and cornea. More interestingly, would this weaken further the FBI's insistence that fingerprints are unique identifiers which are invariant over long periods.
Helium, hah! According to Asimov, it's the flows of carbon into the star that can cause it to go nova.
The link missing from my post is here.
if something is not profitable, then the net benefit to society is negative.
Counterexample: Wikipedia. It's a non-profit, based entirely on user contributed material and user curating of said material. Even in opinion at , Wikipedia was considered to be generating a consumer surplus. But the very notion of consumer surplus is missing from your analysis.
As another example, having accessible works in the public domain is a net benefit to society, even if there is no profit to be made from them. No doubt, having any works in the public domain is an economic catastrophe in such a narrow view as the one you presented.
Utter shite.
It wasn't that good. Closer to the festering diseased shite category, except that most festering diseased shite would take the comparison as an insult.
TFA says "15 mm x 17.1 mm"
2. It's a scheme to nickle and dime the tax payer with the never ending promise of "we're so close, we just need some more funding" all while on the 10th round of funding already.
It does sound like a nickel and dime job, except for the lack of a nickel or dime: they're barely willing to spend a cent on it.
Ever get involved with work for Uncle Sam? The paperwork is appalling, starting with all the regulatory compliance issues (as indicated in mveloso's post below). The entire investment would be absorbed by bullshit overhead (project management, budget oversight, regulatory oversight, etc.) before a single STEM worker could get hired to actually do any of the work.
With $16M spread across 17 projects, it's no wonder that STEM jobs are underpaid. Then again, with all the billions being wasted on spying (on US citizens as well as foreigners), it no wonder there is so little left for projects which might actually benefit mankind.
It is embarrassing that over two millennia after the birth of Western civilisation ,we have degenerated to a point where we still believe that simple indicators can determine whether someone will steal, lie, or be just wonderful.
Yep, the Middle Ages were pretty grim. Nowadays, roughly three millenia after the birth of Western civilization, we're slightly less retarded. But only slightly.
The colophon of the book states it clearly enough:
"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. If you distribute this work or a derivative, include the history of the document."
"The source code is available at: https://github.com/ASCTech/mooculus/tree/master/public/textbook"
I guess the rush to post overwhelmed any curiosity in the material itself. Yes, the repetition "or send a or send a" exists in the textbook.
A whole bunch of my extended family should move there... Maybe make the call limit 3 minutes or less.
Oh but it's so much easier to just adapt to global warming! Think how much it would cost to pay slightly more for cleaner sources of electricity and pay a bit more up front for an electric car that then only costs pocket change to fuel! You might as well condemn all those people to death right now!
But... But... won't the "free market" reward them for breathing water?
scif channel can use extras in a B movie with sharks.
And if the plot is so stupid that it's actually stupid enough, they'll make it in 3D.